"David C. Hoos, Sr." wrote:
>
> All that said, there are two kinds of extended patrons
> recognized by Linux fdisk and friends -- DOS extended (type 5),
> and Linux extended (type 85).
>
> Micro$oft OSs do not recognize type 85 (nor do Partition
> Magic and Boot Magic), so that explains why Windoze cannot
> see your ext2 partitions.
Not true! Windows happily recognises type 85 - it has to because 85
supports large disks whereas 5 does not.
Windows does not recognise Ext2 partitions because of the file system
type code for that partition - it has nothing to do with whether the
partition is primary or logical.
> If you change the type 85 partition to type 5, both Micro$oft
> OSs and Linux will be able to see the ext2 partitions within
> the extended partition.
In general, nonsense for large disks.
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Ron. [au]
